The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-14

| party after all. The following is from the
| Sumtervie Gazette. For several
months Nelson Haggard, of Walker
| county, has been on the track OF negro
! whom he suspected of being the ravisher Of
! Ms, Kendrick. He arrested him last FRI
/ day in Somerset county, Kentucky, and APP
| plluation was Immediately made to Gov.
| Gordon for a requisition. He fills the de-
| scription exactly, and was on the Rome and
Decatur railroad on Feb. 3. A day Or two
after, he went home, told his wife he had
! committed the rape and left"
Advices from Elberton is to the effect
that the religious trouble in that place is not
in the slightest way allayed and will take
at least a generation to wipe it out. The
town is badly divided and great deal of
hard feeling exists. At one time 1t was
feared that there would be personal con-
tiict between prominent members OF two de-
nominations; but cooler counsel prevailed,
and this subsidized Not only the church
members refused to affiliate, but the bitter
ness was carried into the private family cir
Giles. The schools have been broken up and
Professor Ayers has left the place. The
BaptistS have opened school of their de-
nomination, and the MethOdists will do like
wise, but the place cannot support two good
schools, and this division will greatly lnJure
them. Even the newspapers have been
supporting the Leader and the Methodist
party the Gazette
Tallapoosa journal: What is Bessemer
orel is a question which is often asked in
these days of iron excitement. From in
quiry with several well-known furnace men,
which is cOrroborated by the manager of
land company here, any ore which is free
enough from phosphorus to work by the
direct or basaic process without dephos-
tea
whether it be brown or black in color Ii
may carry the desired portion of manganese
or manganese may have to be added to pro
duce the desired effect. The term Bessen er
is production Of the last three years, and
is used by the iron men in designating this
particular grade of ore, whether it be
brown or red hematites or manganlferouS
ores Assays made on both the brown and
nanganiferous ores of TallapOosa i'll many
places on each of the four leads running
parallel show that they contain from one
tenth to three-tenths of phosphorus, conse-
quently they can be worked into steel by
the direct process and are in the
parlance of the day Bessemer ores.
Among those that have been attracted to
Barlow county lately is Lewis Scofield,
formerly of Atlanta, but more recently
from Chattanooga. Mr.. Scofield built the
first iron foundry in Atlanta as well as the
last one, and is well known in manufactu-
ring circles. He is now engaged in operating
one of the many manganese banks in the
county, situated just across the river below
Gainesville. In the COS in a trade he
became in possession of his present lot in
Barlow county, which was termed. a wild
land lot in the trade. Henever thought much
of the matter, grudgngly paid the tax ever
since, often thinking that he would not
pay the tax, but let the lot go to sale, as has
mol Tft ha 10 in, lie
posed of He, however, continued paying
the taxes, which was trivial amount,
thinking some day he would have a chance
of selling it so as to get it off his hands.
During the late interest centred on the lands
of our county Mr. Scofleld concluded, as his
lot seemed to be in the midst of iron and
manganese banks, to give it test A few
workmen were soon digging away and soon
developed that the insignificant lot was to
bloom forth as a never-failing bonanza.
Iron and manganese were found in large
quantities and is now being mined success
fully. Only the other day yellow ochre was
found in great quantities. Mr.. Scotield is
happy owes his prospects.
Camilla correspondent Albany Ne,US and
advertiser: The writer was called, on last
sabbath morning, to ride with DR.. w, w.
Twitty, of this place, to see patient of his,
Mr.. HAIR a section master, living on the
The condition of the dirt road leading to
the house of the sick man is such that it
necessitates the leaving of the horse and
buggy of the Doctor three-quarters of a
mile away, thereby walking for that dis
tance becomes necessary. A cow pit is in
the way of the pedestrian along the rail-
road. On our return from the visit to the
patient, your correspondent, in undertake
ing to walk across the pit, although using
n1ntlnn H1grRUaTd-
ing the necessity of self-protec-
tion and becoming vigilance, his
foot slipped and he went headforemost into
one of the dirtiest and most offensive pits
that it had been his misfortune to fall into.
In it were dead frogs, tadpoes and many
other dead things, emitting an odor than
which shere is none more offensive. Your
correspondent was wearing his new and
best trousers, which were much damaged,
having had one leg torn nearly off, his shins
badly skinned, thoroughly drenched i'll such
an offensive hole that the inconvenience
and damages are too great to keep without
notice. Your correspondent has not felt
like writing since the casualty, yet he does
not - ose to assess the damage done to his
perso:~,S resulting from the unfortunate ca
tastrophe, but is willing to submit the mat
ter to fair arbitration.
Tallapoosa Journal. J. r. Crandall, the
=
spent two days of this week in Barlow
county, and reports that there is hardly a
piece of iron property, developed or unde-
veloped, now for sale-it having all been
bought up by furnace men. He says that
the iron property in Tallapoosa will soon
be, and is now in fact, in great demand
The Bessemer ores on this lead, which runs
through Harrison, Polk, Barlow, Cherokee,
Pickens, Dawson, Lumpkin and Union
counties, are what the great iron fur
naces of the South must depend on
in the future for ore for steel making.
Until recently it was supposed that no man
ganeSe or Bessemer ore existed below Polk
county but since the prospecting de-
velopment by the Tallapoosa Land, Mining
and Manufacturing Company, it is found
| that the richest ores of the whole lead are
| found in HARRISON county. near Tallapoosa.
This town has the advantage of being nearer
to railroad communication with the great
| furnaces of Alabama than any of the other
| counties named--the ores exist in larger
| quantities, and are of superior quality.
| Several of the furnaces at Birmingham
are being altered into steel making,
and one of the furnaces being erected
| at Bessemer, Ala, will be used for the
same purpose in connection with steel rail
mill now located there Admission is also
! making preparations to manufacture steel,
! aud all Of the cities are compelled to
| look into either Georgia, North Carolina on
| Arkansas for their BeSSempr ores ITALIA